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Saturday, August 3, 2019

We knew Roomba was spying on and making a database of the interior our homes! Turns out your phone is too!!



Well, first read this. You won't like it:

https://thegeekherald.com/p/att-is-invading-user-privacy-heres-how/


"According to recent reports, an AT&T service technician claims the company is invading user’s privacy. According to him, the company’s iPad app maps the interiors of their customers’ homes without their knowledge...."

And if they can, they match the data up to photos on Zillow and other real estate sites to visualize the inside of your home, furnishings and all!

Wow, this just keep getting worse. The matching of the data with online real estate sites is outrageously creepy. And I'm sure when friends come over, their phones grab this data up too.

I don't know about you, dear Reader, but more and more I'm thinking of tethering my phones to a single spot, attaching my computers via cable (no router) likewise to a single desk, and purging everything else. Also, only buying old cars, which alas I predict will become difficult or impossible within 10 years.

And also remember, 5G will allow multitudes of low power wifi "reporters" to be placed in everything, no login required, so soon everything will report on you. Your vacuum cleaner. Your pen. Your refrigerator. Your walls in new construction (Hello, Amazon Real Estate). Your coat. Your pants. Will there be external 5G wifi, meaning you don;t even need to install a router yourself? Yes, there already is already in several test areas within selected cities.

Unless you want to say goodbye FOREVER to your privacy, people must begin to be aware and protest this or the train-wreck of lost privacy will simply continue to an inevitable end of your agency and freedom. What's that you say? "I'm not doing anything I'm ashamed of, so I don't care"? Unless you feel like it's cool to post your credit card and bank info to strangers, fun to put a public camera in your bathroom and bedroom, and enjoy having every spat with your spouse or kids posted publicly in Facebook, I call nonsense. Of course you care. So do something about it.

Right? Yasssss!